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He was a Senator for Illinois.
He was the senator of Illinois and wrote a book.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He was re-elected several times. Then, in 2004, he was elected a U.S. Senator. He served about twelve years total in the state and the U.S. senate, before being elected president in 2008.
Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
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After college, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago before attending law school. He then worked as a civil rights attorney and a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Later, he served as a state senator in Illinois and then as the U.S. Senator from Illinois before being elected as the 44th President of the United States.
Before he was president, Barack Obama was a community organizer and advocate for the poor; a civil rights lawyer; a professor of constitutional law; a state senator from Illinois and then a U.S. Senator.
Absolutely. Before he entered politics, Mr. Obama was a civil rights lawyer, an advocate and community organizer who helped poor people, and a professor of law at the University of Chicago.
If you are asking what position he held before being elected president, he was elected a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and in 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.